1)
The average rate of profit of the capitalist core zone is permanently twice as
high as the profit rates in the core zone. This is consistent with the
observations of Karl Marx. He said:

“This is particularly important in comparing
rates of profit in different countries. Let us assume that the rate of
surplus-value in one European country is 100%, so that the labourer works half
of the working-day for himself and the other half for his employer. Let us
further assume that the rate of profit in an Asian country is 25%, so that the
labourer works 4/5 of the working-day for himself, and 1/5 for his employer.

Let
84c + l6v be the composition of the national capital in the European country,
and 16c + 84v in the Asian country, where little machinery, etc., is used, and where
a given quantity of labour-power consumes relatively little raw material
productively in a given time. Then we have the following calculation:

In
the European country the value of the product = 84c + 16v + 16s = 116; rate of
profit = 16/100 = 16%.

The
rate of profit in the Asian country is thus more than 25% higher than in the
European country, although the rate of surplus-value in the former is
one-fourth that of the latter. Men like Carey, Bastiat, and tutti quanti, would
arrive at the very opposite conclusion. Karl Marx, Capital III, 115.

2)
The theory of Marx also agrees with the fact that the rate of profit on the
periphery (with the exception of the years between 1982 and 1991) has steadily
declined. While the rate of profit in the capitalist core zone declined until
1982, but increased between 1982 and 2007 - the "age of
globalization". This increase in the rate of profit still needs to be
explained.